Republicans tried to snag Jack Smith on technicalities. But they didn’t engage with the facts. - POLITICO

"Our Republican colleagues want to try to dirty up his investigation, but they want to try to avoid as much as possible the underlying facts, because it's all about what is incontrovertibly true: Donald Trump's determined plan to overthrow the 2020 presidential election," said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, in an interview during a break in the hours-long hearing convened to receive Smith's first-ever public testimony... 

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/jack-smith-testimony-trump-00742457 

 

Mind blowing facts about Jesus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqBmKGPC1_A

 

How do you “Google competently”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-M-4gb_mM

5 things to know about fluoride and dental health - The Washington Post

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called fluoride 'industrial waste,' but fluoridation of drinking water promotes dental health, experts say...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/04/14/fluoride-drinking-water-dental-health/

Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner

 "a world that's right for a dictator"...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa

 

'Do your own research' and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t54I6NKtr4k

Educated Citizen Teaches MAGA Bigots a Lesson They'll NEVER Forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jayrzwhhaRA

Does scripture say gender is immutable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjnEziLlAto

Vaccines tell a success story that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump forget – here are some key reminders

Here are some facts about vaccines that skeptics like Kennedy get wrong:

https://theconversation.com/vaccines-tell-a-success-story-that-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-trump-forget-here-are-some-key-reminders-232364

The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justice | Scientific American

 When the Supreme Court's Ohio v. EPA decision blocked Environmental Protection Agency limits on Midwestern states polluting their downwind neighbors, a sad but telling coda came in Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion. In five instances, it confused nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to ozone formation, with nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas. 

You can't make this stuff up. This repeated mistake in the 5-4 decision exemplifies a high court not just indifferent to facts but contemptuous of them... 

Climate change, in particular, seems to draw out the Court's taste for fiction. The 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision that halted efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal power plants, another 6-3 opinion, saw the majority enshrine a "major questions" doctrine. This legal theology, conjured from the penumbras and emanations of past antiregulatory decisions, insists that sizable regulations require patently-impossible-to-acquire congressional authorization. This is a "power grab" by the Court, anointing itself the economy's czar…

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/

AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition

Want a description of how inflation has affected grocery prices in the past five years, or a summary of what the European Union AI Act includes? AI Overviews can be a good way to cut through a lot of documents and extract those specific answers. 

But people's searching needs don't end with factual information. They look for ideas, opinions and advice. Looking for suggestions about how to keep the cheese from sliding off your pizza? Google will tell you that you should add some glue to the sauce. Or wondering if running with scissors has any health benefits? Sure, Google will say, "it can also improve your pores and give you strength"…

https://theconversation.com/ai-search-answers-are-the-fast-food-of-your-information-diet-convenient-and-tasty-but-no-substitute-for-good-nutrition-230759

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane CRUSHES Bill Maher antivax nonsense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_JHmcL_enw

How Mike Johnson’s creationist beliefs clash with climate facts: ‘He just wasn’t interested’

What's more, MacMillan added, most fundamentalists argue that even if the climate is changing, it should make no difference because they also expect the imminent, apocalyptic, final judgment of the world...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/13/mike-johnson-creationist-beliefs-clash-with-climate-facts

Pro-Life Republicans distort and misrepresent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGjOJlqkL0

Snowflake Conservatives Get TRIGGERED By Facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32c0oevvebY

10 Black History Facts That Are Least Known

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z6WS2aeFAc

The Effects of Counseling and Protestors on People Who Get Abortions (Thomas Smith and Dr. Lindsay Osterman; Serious Inquiries Only podcast SIO345)

It’s a 3rd edition of turnaway studies!  What do abortion office patients and staff say in polls and interviews about what they experience in abortion clinics, and outside when confronted by protesters?  Are they pressured?  Are they well-informed? Do they have regrets?  Are protesters hostile?  Do protesters have any effect?

Interview: 

https://seriouspod.com/sio345-the-effects-of-counseling-and-protestors-on-people-who-get-abortions/

Charlie Pierce (The Mary Trump Show podcast)

Mary Trump celebrates the life of Eric Boehlert, and welcomes Esquire political blogger Charlie Pierce to examine the role of the internet in undermining journalism and keeping us addicted to outrage. They also discuss the importance of not turning facts into arguments, standing up for science, and the need for fearlessness when confronting lies and hypocrisy from the extreme Right.

Interview: 

https://audioboom.com/posts/8063222-charlie-pierce

Infectious disease experts: Prevalent Covid myths are still spreading

CNBC Make It asked a trio of leading infectious disease experts for the biggest Covid misconceptions they're hearing right now. Here's what they said…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/14/infectious-disease-experts-prevalent-covid-myths-are-still-spreading.html

Atlantic Monthly Writer Frank Foer Tears Facebook a New One (The Al Franken podcast)

"A friggin’ brilliant excoriation of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg"

Interview: 

https://alfranken.com/listen/atlantic-monthly-writer-frank-foer-tears-facebook-a-new-one